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[dramatic music]

*

- Starting to get worried about this boat

not providing us with more fish.

How much longer can we go like this, Ted?

- Brooke is pushing herself farther than she should.

Let me carry the big ones, please.

- Why don't you just keep doing your thing?

- Oh--way!

Oh-oh-oh-- [overlapping shouting]

Oh, no! - My dad gets fish,

and I have not gotten a single one.

It's so frustrating.

- I'm going to set a trotline.

Oh, [bleep]. No.

Infection could spell the end for us out here.

[dramatic music]

*

- This is gonna be an incredible challenge.

- We're gonna be dropped off in separate locations,

and one of us has to find the other.

- Here we go.

- I've got to wait on my brother.

Hopefully he'll be here soon. - Please come tomorrow.

- I don't know where I'm going, how long I'm gonna be out here.

All I have is a compass bearing.

- It's a needle in a haystack.

Can I even make it to base camp?

- Dad! - No way.

- Everything around you is telling you

you need to go home.

[horn toots] - Please leave me alone!

- If you don't work as a team, it's game over.

- I can't hold the-- - Just hold it still.

- $500,000 would be life-changing.

- I know. - I feel like

the life was sucked out of me.

- He's coming. He sees me.

[mysterious music]

*

[waves rushing]

*

- Let me show you something.

This is called the yellow brick.

This is how you quit.

See this button?

There's this little door you flip up--[pops tongue]

and you push the button.

We live in a push-button world.

You want to watch TV, you push the button.

Change the channel.

Lot of cars are push-button start.

This is the everything button.

This button will get you steak and eggs

and a hot shower and a plane ride home.

Only press once,

then everything magically happens.

This is also the button that you push and you lose.

I'm not interested in that button.

Although it sounds pretty good.

[laughs]

[somber music]

*

[birds calling]

*

- Just keep working on that crab trap, man,

and if it starts producing, it would help a lot.

- We decided that the holes are too big on this crab trap,

so I think I'm gonna weave sticks through the mesh,

and we'll drop it in a deeper spot

and get it working for us,

'cause I spent a lot of time on it.

It's kind of upsetting that it's not catching anything.

- Gonna try to get the boat in and get the crab trap out there.

We're both so low on energy,

we don't know if it's the best use of our calories,

but...we're gonna go for it anyways.

'Cause we need something to happen out here,

and as hungry as we are... [breathing hard]

I don't know.

We're just kinda feeling like

we're not gonna win this.

- Every single thing

we have done as a project

has been a failure for us,

so we got to really dig in mentally

and physically to try to overcome this hump

so that we can excel out here.

- Let me help you get in.

We're doing it.

- Sure.

[edgy music]

*

That's our fire extinguisher,

which I found probably three weeks ago,

and we're using it as a float for our crab trap.

Finally coming into use.

*

Excellent.

Jim and I learned, growing up,

that no matter what, you just don't give up.

We've always had a strength

just passed down to us from our parents,

who were entrepreneurs and athletic and outdoorsy,

and just everything they've done has been so contagious.

And even though we've had tough times,

we're still chomping at the bit

to try to make something happen.

*

All right.

That took a lot out of me.

- Oh, Jim, maybe that crab trap

will have something in it.

- I think it will.

[somber music]

*

[water trickling] [birds calling]

*

- I think we've managed to do okay for ourselves.

The cabin's done.

The fireplace is all done.

- It has allowed us to just

come in at the end of a long day,

and you feel secure and you're dry,

and it's a much happier environment.

- So once you get the place figured out

and how to live out here, then it's how to stay sane.

We're gonna have to find some things to stay occupied.

So we're at the stage-- we're making board games.

You see what I'm doing here--

running that knife through the back side here.

*

It's kind of nice to have a project,

and I think we could use a checkerboard around here.

[soft music]

- Dave's mind is just so creative,

and he can build anything.

- Now I'm gonna make some checkers,

and then I'm gonna beat my wife at checkers--or lose.

*

- I haven't played checkers in so long.

- Me neither.

*

- We're gonna play games. Yay!

- About to get ugly around here.

- You're going down.

That's what's gonna happen.

[both chuckle]

Oh. Oh, gosh.

Oh, boy.

- King me. - At the end of the day,

Dave and I, coming into this together

as a husband and wife,

we can't just blow up and have a disagreement

and go our separate ways at the end of this deal.

No. We're tied to each other forever.

We're parents.

We gotta be strong for our kids.

You have to come through it in one piece

and probably stronger than you ever were.

- I'm no checker wizard.

I mean, you suck, but I...

I'm no genius at it, so, you'll get so much better.

You'll be a savant by the time we're outta here.

- I hate you! [both laughing]

[somber music]

*

[music lightens]

*

- It's gonna be really exciting to check out the crab trap,

see if we have anything in there.

I think it'd be a real morale booster if we did.

[sighs] [bleep].

I don't see the crab trap.

So...when I put out the crab trap yesterday,

we didn't have much rope, and, uh,

the float was just kind of barely on the surface.

And now I can't see it at all.

So I'm hoping the float's just underwater,

and as the tide comes down a little more,

we'll be able to see it.

I'm trying to stay positive that it'll show up.

*

We're gonna take the boat out and go have a look for it.

All right, put it down for a sec.

Oh. Okay.

- All the netting, bait cage, cordage,

and fire extinguisher appears to have been lost.

The water level is 3, 3 1/2 feet lower

than when we set it. We can't see the float.

Maybe the fire extinguisher filled with water and sunk.

So the only hope we have is to go out there and look

and hope that we can see it just below the surface.

In a survival situation,

these kinds of things can mean life and death.

You lose your crab trap,

now you don't catch any crabs, and you die.

You don't get a second chance.

Out here, who's gonna be the one

that hits the wall first?

That's what this experience really is.

- What's that?

- What?

- What's that? - Where?

- Behind you.

- It's a seal.

- Oh, [bleep].

- Woof. [high voice] Hello.

Can you find our crab trap?

Dude, I can't see anything.

- Jim, this was our meal ticket, man.

Basically, all our projects

have just been a total waste of time so far.

Probably would have had like

another three weeks of energy

if we hadn't done any of these things.

[somber music]

*

- Yeah, I see it. It's right here.

- Thank God!

*

Jim sees the trap.

*

- Ted, we're saved. - Yeah-hah!

- Yes.

I'm just gonna pull this kelp up,

and I'll pull the whole thing right up, bud.

*

- Man, if this thing has crabs in it,

it's just gonna be...

absolute tragedy to triumph situation.

[dramatic chords]

[energetic music]

*

[suspenseful music]

*

- Yeah, I see it. It's right here.

Ted, we're saved.

- Yeah-hah!

- Yes.

I'm just gonna pull this kelp up,

and I'll pull the whole thing right up, bud.

- Man, if this thing has crabs in it,

it's just gonna be...

absolute tragedy to triumph situation.

Oh, it slipped off.

[edgy music]

*

It looks like the float is not floating.

No!

Oh, no, Jim!

The float sunk.

No!

[bleep]!

*

- It's gone. That's it, bud.

- You blew it.

You blew it. The crab trap was your job.

- Yeah, it's my fault, bud. Sure.

- No, you just lost it off the kelp.

That's what I'm saying. - Yeah, no, I couldn't help it.

It wasn't tangled enough.

- Well, you could have reached out with your rod.

- Couldn't grab it. It slipped off the kelp,

and then I watched it just sink right to the bottom,

dude, like a stone.

- So the fire extinguisher obviously had a hole in it,

and now our trap is out there 30 feet deep.

[somber music]

- Dude, I can't believe that just happened, man.

*

That is the worst.

*

- What should we do?

- Let's give up. It's gone.

- Today was a really bad day for me.

I had absolutely no energy,

and now we've lost our crab trap.

Everything we've made is a flop, Jim.

- You're such a depressed case, bud.

Like, cheer up a little.

- Take your rod out of the boat already.

- I'm trying to.

- We're basically starving to death,

and one of the risks is that we get in an argument

that we can't come back from, where one of us, you know,

just gets pissed and taps out.

*

- Just, like, you know, I wanna able to [bleep]

survive out here, and we're just not, you know?

We're, like, slowly [bleep] starving

is what's happening.

This is why we're gonna lose.

This is dumb, [bleep] like this.

Maybe we should just throw in the towel.

[soft ethereal music]

*

*

- Oh, it's gonna be so exciting to get home.

- It will be nice.

- Hopefully everybody will be excited to see us.

- Hopefully. [laughs]

- "Oh, you're back, huh?" "Yeah."

"You were out there a while. Why didn't you just stay?"

[both chuckling]

[soft music]

*

Sam and I have fought to keep a positive attitude.

I mean, it's a challenge,

but we're one day closer to our goal,

and it could happen any time.

The bank that we use

when we come in from out front

where all the water is is pretty high,

and it's difficult, sometimes, to get up there.

So we're thinking about making a little ladder.

- Got a few trees close by camp that we've scouted out.

We think they're gonna be pretty good trees

to make our ladder with.

You really think that's big enough for the upright?

- Absolutely. Just be careful up there.

- Yep.

So far, I think we're doing really well.

I'm so proud of everything we accomplished,

but my biggest concern going out here

is just the accident factor.

That is what I'm most concerned about,

is just something happening

that just ends it for us just like that.

Totally unavoidable. That would be a nightmare.

That would be horrible.

You could just fall and twist your ankle,

and out here, that would be devastating.

You know, and it's that momentary slip of attention

that is, in the end, devastating.

That's what I'm most worried about.

You just gotta be smart, you gotta be prepared,

and you gotta stay a step ahead of it.

*

- So the reason I'm making all of these cuts like this

is so that I'll be able to take the big knife

and, with a baton,

go ahead and knock those pieces out of there

and make a real nice notch like that.

I think one of man's most important things in life

is to replace themselves in the next generation,

and that's one of the basic things

for any biological unit.

To do it well is the big thing.

And I think that one day, Sam will be a wonderful father.

- That looks pretty darn good, d.

That's awesome.

[light music]

- Give it a try.

- Oh, yeah.

- Isn't that nice? - That is so nice.

- Yeah. - We did it.

- [laughs] How about that?

Nice.

[somber music]

*

- I'm feeling pretty wiped out today.

I really wonder how long this is gonna go on.

[flames crackling]

[sniffs]

That's a really hard part of this--

not knowing what's going on.

Not knowing who's still out there,

how long you're gonna be here.

It's hard to wrap your head around the unknowns.

Dave's out fishing right now.

I don't know, but today I just feel like

I got sideswiped... [laughs]

so I'm gonna listen to my body and take it easy.

I think I might lay down, take a little nap.

[quiet music]

- Tide's turning, starting to come in.

Hopefully will be good fishing here for the next half hour.

*

I don't have any energy.

I mean, I am just spent.

[sniffs]

You're catching fish, you're doing well,

and then for over a week, nothing.

*

Good shot.

Nope.

Missed it.

We're depleted enough that you're starting to get wobbly.

You're starting to really get shaky.

Brooke is very weak. She's just going downhill.

I've never, ever seen that from her.

And now it's just going to be

nothing but toil from here on out.

[fire snapping, crackling]

[Brooke screams]

[logs clattering] - Honey!

[breathing hard]

[dramatic music]

[somber music]

*

[fire snapping, crackling]

[Brooke screams]

[logs clattering] - Honey!

[breathing hard]

*

Oh, my goodness.

That was scary.

*

I was laying there resting,

and, uh, I heard some--

a whoosh sound,

a flame sound,

and I look up,

and the chimney--

the chimney was on fire.

So from the inside,

I pushed it out.

Problem was, it was all these punky poles.

They instantly dried out.

*

If I had not been here

and went fishing with Dave this morning,

we probably would have burned this place down.

So scary.

[somber music]

Holy crap. That was close.

I got to rebuild this chimney now.

It's just gonna eat up some energy, but--crap.

You can't be burning the house down.

*

[soft instrumentals]

*

- Too bad that crab trap got lost.

- I know, man.

- Sucks, eh?

- And, like, even finding it

is just so much energy that it's like...

- Yeah. - [sighs]

It would have provided us with some food, man.

- I think that the concern is

we've never felt like this before from hunger,

so we have that fear that, like, are we gonna, like,

starve to death kind of thing, right?

Or how much longer can we last

until we just can't get up or we can't move, right?

[somber music]

*

[dark chords]

*

- So I've been laying in my shelter, and I noticed,

when I lay on my left side, which is facing the wall,

I've been smelling these absolutely horrible smells,

you know? For the past, like, three days.

And I had no idea what it was.

You know, I keep, like, my batteries there,

my yellow brick.

It's like, that stuff can't smell like death,

and I know why it smelled like death,

is becausethat's .

It was a rotting little periwinkle.

It's kind of funny. Really glad it's over with.

I think really our main goal for today

is to make it out to the point and get some fish,

and fingers crossed, we'll get something.

[edgy music]

- Wow, look at that flow. - I know.

This water's just moving so fast.

- Yeah, this'll be interesting to see if we can even fish.

- I know.

Every fish we've eaten out here has been my dad.

I have not caught a single fish.

I'm literally standing feet away from him,

and he'll be slaying the fish, you know.

He's getting bites and I'm just standing there,

just holding the stick.

- I felt a little tug.

Come on, fishy.

[soft, edgy music]

*

Yes! - Yes!

Holy cow, Dad!

Nice catch.

- How about that? - Awesome, Dad.

*

- I think that you give your child

everything that you can give them,

and with Sam, with either of my children,

I would provide for them as long as I'm able.

It's something a dad does.

- With this extreme tide, it's incredible

the amount of sea life we've been noticing.

Like, you can see starfish everywhere

and red crabs,

and those little guys are full of meat.

The red crabs...

they don't like hanging around the rocks.

They prefer the muddier areas.

[somber music]

Red crab. - No. Really?

- Dad, I need you to pull my sleeves up real quick.

Okay, thank you. See 'em?

- Oh, that's in deep water.

Just be careful. Take your time.

- I know.

*

[dramatic music]

*

- That's in deep water.

You gotta be really careful.

- I know. - Be careful. Take your time.

- Oh, oh, [bleep]. He's on the move.

- Holy cow.

- Oh, he's moving quick.

Oh, yeah! - Nice!

Holy cow. - Oh, yeah!

- Holy cow! - Look at that beefy boy.

- Beautiful.

- Check it out.

The first red crab we've gotten out here.

Not a giant by any means,

but those claws are definitely gonna have

a good old bite of meat in them.

I'm really looking forward to this.

[anticipatory music]

*

Holy cow.

That is what I am talking about.

Yes!

Got ourselves some dinner.

*

That was actually a really tasty bite.

- This side was down in the saltwater.

- Oh, there you go.

*

- It is so good.

Man, I wish every fish that we caught tasted like this.

[rain pattering on roof]

- We've been in the zone lately.

We just got to stay there.

- That's right. [rain pattering]

You know, I've been dreaming about this for ten years.

If we stay out here the longest, if we win...

- Mm-hmm. - My dream is to

get an aluminum boat.

- It'd be fantastic. - Set it up for crabbing.

We could put it in the river right by the house.

- If we can win this,

I'm gonna take a year off of work.

- [laughs] Yeah. - You know, I'm gonna take

a whole year off, and we're just gonna

go out on the boat every day.

We're gonna go crabbing.

We're gonna go crabbing, like, twice a week, probably.

That's what's driving us every day,

and just the world of possibilities.

That boat and a whole year off of work.

Oh, it's gonna be so much fun.

*

[edgy music]

*

[birds peeping, calling]

*

- It's the morning of the 31st day.

Spent another night in our cabin.

Fishing, firewood. That's it.

That's all that's on the agenda.

Brooke is currently warming up by the fire.

What do you have to say this morning?

- Lovely day for eating. [fire crackling]

I like to eat.

- Your hair is awesome.

[laughing]

- Thank you.

I do what I can.

- We need to go out and get a bunch of fish

and turn this cabin

into a fish smoking cannery processing plant,

because we need to gain a pound.

*

- As the days go by,

your body is more depleted,

and when your body is not getting what it needs,

it starts to freak your mind out.

And suddenly, everything is enhanced,

and that is the psychology of survival.

That is when you really dig down

and see what you've got in reserve to make it work.

You're trying to stay in command of your mind

so you can stay when everything around you

is telling you you need to go home.

- Ooh, fish on. - Yes.

*

- Yeah-ha! - Nice.

*

Fish on.

- Good job, babe.

- Oh, it's a good one. I don't want to lose it.

- Well-- - Oh, yeah.

- Good job, man. - Oh, yeah.

- That is awesome.

*

- Yay. Two fish already.

Makes me feel so much better.

*

Fish on.

- Good job, babe.

- I gotta get it up here.

Yay! - Whoo!

- He's lively.

It's a good size. [sniffles]

*

- This guy's pretty cool. Check him out.

Blue inside, blue outside.

That is just...

that's just amazing.

I don't know if that shows, but, pfft, wow.

I mean, this guy is blue.

Couple of very nice fish.

Very thankful. [exhales]

This was a good day for us,

but the fact is, from a calorie standpoint,

either one of us could eat three, four fish a day

before we would gain back anything.

Brooke dropped so much weight.

We've got to put more food on the table.

Otherwise...

I don't know what's gonna happen.

[dramatic chords]

[dramatic music]

*

- I'm starting to really see Ted

get really down and depressed.

It just gets really frustrating.

Just not gonna let Ted bother me.

Find a happy place.

[inhales]

Happy. Happy place.

Look, a unicorn.

[sighs]

- [sniffles]

Oh, man.

We don't have enough food for dinner.

- Yeah.

- Gotta forage.

[somber music] Hmm.

Should start stockpiling.

Let's plan to have

two meals a day for five days saved.

- Might be a little ambitious, don't you think?

- No.

It's worth the output to forage,

and it's more of a guarantee.

- Yeah, I don't want to [bleep] kill myself doing that, man.

I don't know if we have the energy to forage that much.

- Seems to be working pretty well,

for the most part.

- I don't think so. You forage and I'll fish.

We will see what happens,

and we'll see what the future has to hold.

- All right.

[groans]

*

- We're really gonna have to dig deep here,

'cause we both want this so bad.

*

Families and ourselves and our girlfriends

and, you know, we owe it to them

to give it everything we got.

Figure I need another hundred of these crabs, at least.

For us to win, we have to be prepared to do anything,

and how well you could actually stock up

and actually prepare the way the natives would have

makes you realize the value of foraging.

You plan for the worst, hope for the best,

especially in a survival situation.

Whoa-ho!

*

[bass chords]

Foraging is more of an insurance of getting something,

where fishing's more hit and miss.

But, you know, no risk, no reward,

because fishing offers the best food, it fills us up,

it gives us the best energy, it tastes better,

it's a huge morale booster for us.

And I just think that this is the best survival strategy.

I think Ted exerts himself so intensely

every single freaking day to bring food back home,

and long-term, that's too much work.

- Jim is thinking foraging is a waste of time.

Like, I get it. This sucks, this is terrible,

but shore crabs, seaweed,

limpets...

these things can't be taken for granted.

At the end of the day, it actually keeps us alive.

[deep breath] - Well...

right now I'm feeling a little discouraged

that I haven't caught anything.

It's a really cold and windy day.

Doesn't feel very fishy today.

Well, I'm gonna go back, get some rest,

'cause I want to get up and fish tomorrow.

[soft music]

*

- Seems like I have to, like, force you into foraging,

and then, like, I'm always the only one,

and I always come back with more food, and, like,

and anything I don't wanna do--

Whenever I don't wanna do something your way,

you get pissed.

- I don't know,

it's just particularly surrounding foraging.

If you haven't realized,

it's foraging that wins this show.

- Well, you want to keep a bunch in reserve, and I don't think

that's as important as you think it is.

*

[energetic music]

- As the days move forward, it's just getting harder,

which I didn't even think it was possible.

*

All I'm doing is just turning over rocks,

and my energy levels are-- absolutely just suck.

411.

12.

13.

I'm doing the heavy lifting right now,

and Jim isn't contributing.

So just so y'all know,

that's what 600 limpets looks like.

[edgy music]

*

It's maybe about 6 feet deep here.

Just trying to jig right off the rocks and sit.

Takes very little energy to do that,

rather than standing and casting.

*

Nothing's biting today, Ted.

- What? - Nothing's biting. Nothin'.

[dark notes]

*

- Out here, I'm slowly learning

that people don't survive by themselves.

You need help, and for Jim and I,

our survival depends on each other so much.

And in this case,

having my particular brother is just tough.

- Now I'm just really, really beat.

[dark music]

*

- He's always so exhausted

and blah, blah, blah, and he thinks,

"Oh, maybe we should just cut our losses

"and not get the food,

"because we're expending more energy

than the calories we're collecting,"

but if we're actually planning on winning this,

we need to work together as a team.

*

You know, I just feel like everything we have right now

is a result of my hard work.

[dramatic musical sting]

*

- What are you gonna do? - I don't know.

Probably just lie down or something for a bit.

*

- Huh. Why don't you come fish then?

- I don't know. I don't have the energy, man.

I'm [bleep] dead.

- All right.

*

At this point,

if someone's not pulling their weight,

we're just [bleep].

[dramatic music]

*

*

- My freaking butt has lost

so much fat and muscle off of it

that it's so bony it hurts me to sit.

[soft music]

We have two full days of food in hand.

Ted really wanted to go out and forage again tonight,

and I said, you know, let's just take it easy, man, you know?

- The limpets are out like crazy.

*

We're totally exhausted,

but we have no choice but to get a lot of food.

*

- We have, like, at least four pots of food here.

- Yeah, but that's only, like, two days, not even.

I think if you would come out, though,

once you got out here,

you would have felt pretty good, and you could have easily--

- I'm actually feeling really good right now and relaxed.

- The limpets are swarming now, and they, like--

that doesn't happen for another, like,

two weeks, you know?

- I think you're too scared.

[dark notes]

- I'm not scared.

I just know that I'm getting all the [bleep] food foraging,

and you're always not.

And every time, I forage way more than you,

and you always are complaining and don't want to do it.

- Why are you picking an argument with me right now?

- I'm not, I'm just saying-- - I thought we were over this.

You're just hungry and you're mad,

and you're acting like a [bleep] ass[bleep].

- [inaudible] take, like, half an hour to try to get some food.

- I think you're just mad

that you haven't even caught one fish.

- No, not at all. I've provided way more food

than the fish you've caught, if you haven't realized.

- You're the big hero. - I'm not the hero.

I'm just saying, dude-- - The big guy

that's talked me into everything.

- If you want to win $500,000,

you can't sit on your ass and not get food.

- Thank God for Ted. Let me bow to you!

- Okay, man. Shut up.

- It's all you out here, bud. - Let it go, man.

- It's just all you. I'm not doing anything.

- [bleep] this [bleep], man.

[bleep] this dumb [bleep]. That's it for me.

- Talking about the wire for the rock.

That's all I was trying to say, [bleep] damn it.

When you haven't eaten, what sort of demons

come out in your personality?

- If this doesn't pan out, I don't know what we're gonna do.

- I've never had to starve like this before.

It makes you want to tap that button.

- I have really intense abdominal pain.

- I'm really concerned for Ted.

He might not have much time left.

[dramatic chords]